... Polyamory has been made out as one of the morally abhorrent “others” to monogamous partnership, and many advocates of same-sex marriage today seem more invested in promoting monogamous homosexuality as the “new normal” rather than to question the notions that led to the othering of homosexuality and polyamory in the first place ...
This Friday in Vancouver ....
... head downtown and hear project members Jasper Heaton and Aida Roige Mas discuss the Metaphysics of Love!
This event is free and open to the public.
Guest Post by Eric van Zwol: Towards a Phenomenology of Romantic Love
Guest Post by Justin Clardy: Love, Obligation and Contracts
... When participants accept proposed terms from one another and mutually agree on the accepting of that term for their contract, they enter in to a binding agreement to one another. These contracts between loving friends and romantic partners typically involve an arrangement of desires and expectations the participants have of one another and of their relationship. Examples of this are the sexual exclusivity in romantic relationships or the agreement of platonic friends of the opposite sex not to engage in flirtatious activities with one another.
The contracts that we establish in our relationships are what provide participants with their obligations to the beloved ...
Guest Post by Thomas Oord: Explaining Love to an Alien
Guest Post by Harry Chalmers: One Cheer for Conditional Love
... I, at least, desire for the love I give and receive not to be arbitrary, and in this I suspect I am not alone. There is something deeply discomforting about the prospect that the love I give and receive is saturated with arbitrariness. The reason that this prospect generates discomfort seems to be the following: If someone’s love for me really is arbitrary, there is no way that her love for me can be a genuine response to who I am. What is it for love to be a genuine response to who I am? ...
Guest Post by Jonny Blamey: The Facts of Love
For most of us it is obvious that the world is full of love, we are born into a loving community and our characters are shaped by the love on which our life depends in our infancy. But Anglophone philosophy is apt to create visions of the world where love has no place in reality. In this post I will focus on the simple question: are there facts about love? To answer this question I will examine propositions in which the term “love” appears, calling them “love-propositions” ...
Pilot Workshop
I'm very excited to announce the Metaphysics of Love Project Pilot Workshop will be held in Vancouver on August 25th, with a fantastic line-up of exciting speakers ...
An Evening of Love and Metaphysics: Café Philosophique
Questions that were discussed included:
(1) Assuming the Aristophanes Myth is not literally true, what should we make of contemporary talk of “other halves” and “soul mates”?
(2) In the movie Her, a man (apparently) falls in love with his computer operating system. Is it really possible for a human to fall in love with an OS? Is it possible for an OS to fall in love? Might it be possible in the future? ...
Open for Submissions
For a trial period, until June 30th, the Metaphysics of Love Project Blog is open to submissions from guest bloggers!
We're looking for short, exciting contributions that offer new or under-explored perspectives on the project questions and related issues.
Anyone in the world can submit a post ...